"Fate loves the fearless."
- James Russell Lowell
"Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review."
"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
"In creating the only hard thing's to begin"
"A wise man travels to discover himself."
"The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude."
"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
"As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, ’Neath every one a friend."
"A sneer is the weapon of the weak."
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."